Slime mold and mushroom growth. Short video with timelapse photography of our mycological overlords. Creepy, beautiful, and otherworldly like War of the Worlds' Red Weed or Half Life's Xen levels. I love the hexagonal net canopies that some of the mushrooms produce.
Adam Savage talk at The Last Hope conference. Fantastic talk on his obsessive sculptural projects to build replicas of a Dodo skeleton and the Maltese Falcon, plus lots of audience Q&A on various aspects of Mythbusters and movie effects.
PHP.JS. JS versions of 100+ PHP functions. Lots of them are pretty trivial, but I came across a situation recently where I might have had to mirror some functionality on both client and server sides. Probably other instances when it'd come in handy too.
How To Launch Software. Aaron Swartz counters 37signals' suggestion that a "Hollywood Launch" works best, with supporting comments from a github developer. Probably borne out by cuil's recent PR-saturated face-plant of a launch.
Danny O’Brien » on being a bit of an idiot. On code reviews, on receiving criticism, and on the value of living some part of your life in public.
Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene. More incredible visual tech from the University of Washington. They're on a roll!
Microsoft Research - 3D photo viewer. You might remember a TED conference presentation of the Microsoft-funded Photosynth project, knitting together the world's photos in 3D space. Looks like they've taken it even further since then.
Coign of Vantage. Simple but fun perspective shifting game. Line up the squares floating in 3D-space to see the 2D pixellated icon shown.
The Art Of Braid. On the evolution of David Hellman's dreamy, painterly art stylings for Braid, released this week on XBLA.
Last.fm – Quality Control. The angry red bear knows when you've been bad. Beautiful. I want something like this where I work.
YouTube - An anthropological introduction to YouTube. Interesting talk at the Library of Congress by the author of the super-optimistic "Machine is Us/ing Us" video.
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